Word: michigan
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...trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages as low as 16?, flagrant violations of child-labor laws, substandard housing...
...Headed by Michigan State University's President John A. Hannah, its members (three each from the North and South) include ex-Governors John S. Battle of Virginia and Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, Notre Dame University's President Theodore M. Hesburgh, Dean Robert G. Storey of the Southern Methodist Law School, and former Dean of Howard University Law School George M. Johnson...
...Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been serving his six terms. Thanks to the state's prolonged case of insolvency (TIME, May 13), Democrat Williams' political hopes for presidential attention were stalled-and even the Democrats knew...
Governor Williams' proffered solution to the money worries was a graduated state income tax, and that sent shudders of horror down Republican spines, and for that matter, down the spines of many of Michigan's industrial workers who are no strangers to income tax forms. As the tax squabble dragged on for months, even some Democrats and union people began to doubt the worth of Williams' plan. Even when the Governor had a chance to let the voters decide between an income tax and a 1% "use" tax, to be piled atop the existing 3% sales...
Though some legislators pretended that the new law would mean the end of Michigan's troubles, most thought otherwise. Lawyers are bound to argue that the use tax is really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...